Word: suppressions
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They had their vanities: rarely does a headdress, the embroidery on a skirt, or the design of an arm band appear more than once. The small figures gather at carnivals, dance through the night. Even a venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush...
...Strawberry Cone. She earned that right the hard way-in a tough childhood that knew little luxury. Before she was in school she already knew how to suppress her tears and keep her head high...
...proclaim unequivocally that he would keep Algeria French. Grey-faced, Debré returned to Paris unnerved; worse yet, the furtiveness of his trip-his arrival in Algiers was not made public until after he had left-made it plain that De Gaulle's government doubted its ability to suppress the uprising...
...case in question was hardly likely to involve the public interest. Last February, probing a shortage in its books, a Detroit architectural engineering firm sued a former partner for an accounting, asked Federal District Judge Theodore Levin to suppress the record in order to spare embarrassment to those directly involved. Levin did, holding that the court has the "inherent right" to suppress any case. After the shortage-nearly $1,000,000-was publicly revealed with the arrest of the firm's former head bookkeeper (TIME, Dec. 21), Detroit papers decided to make an issue of the suppression...
...nationals, generally stand on the balmy side of Minister Louw's temper. Said Society President Hendrik D. Wannenburg: "The mere fact that the government is tampering with internationally recognized freedoms is likely to cause more harm to the Union abroad than the unfavorable publicity it is trying to suppress...